A PUNCH reporter, El-Ameen Ibrahim, was on Friday night time attacked and robbed by ‘one likelihood’ robbers in a tricycle alongside Airport Junction, Abuja round 10pm on his means house from work.
‘One likelihood’ is often utilized in Nigeria to consult with a theft that takes place when a bunch of criminals picks up passengers in disguised business automobiles, to rob or defraud them.
Talking in an interview with our correspondent, Ibrahim revealed that the three robbers, together with the tricycle rider, have been all armed with lengthy sharp knives.
“The assault occurred after I closed from the workplace round 9.30pm on Friday. I used to be robbed of my laptop computer, two Android telephones, cash and different valuables, within the one likelihood Keke NAPEP from NCC Junction to Airport Junction. I used to be additionally assaulted and severely crushed, they usually tried stabbing me,” Ibrahim mentioned.
The PUNCH studies that in current occasions, circumstances of one likelihood’s theft have been growing within the Federal Capital Territory.
One of many current victims of a ‘one likelihood,’ incident, Greatness Olorunfemi, was reportedly planning to relocate to the USA to additional her research earlier than she was killed.
About one month in the past, the FCT Police Command introduced the arrest of Chukwudi Ezirike, a needed ‘one likelihood’ kingpin who was allegedly inflicting worry alongside the Kubwa/Zuba freeway.
Talking to journalists on the command’s headquarters on Friday, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, famous that Ezirike’s operational car, a blue Golf 3 automobile with quantity plate KWL 536 RZ was additionally recovered by the police.
He additional famous that a lot of the automobiles recovered over such crimes had tinted glasses on them, including that in a police search, an axe, a cutlass, and one knife suspected for use in finishing up prison actions have been recovered from the automobiles, including that three of the suspects arrested in relation to such incidents have been below investigation.
The spokesperson for the FCT Police command, Josephine Adeh, couldn’t be reached for feedback as of the time of submitting this report.
